Activities for kids

Things We Want to Do These Holidays!

December 28, 2012

We’ve been adding to our Summer Holiday Activity list for the past few weeks, and it’s getting longer and longer… Here are just some of the things we want to [...]

Fusible Bead Christmas Decorations

December 18, 2012

A while back I bought a BIG jar of fusible beads from Ikea. We used them in the traditional way with inspiration from the Kid’s Crafternoon Beading book, and then [...]

2012 Christmas Printables – Printable Reindeer Antlers!

December 11, 2012

Nanny Pickle (my Mum) is a little nuts about reindeer. If you went to her house around about now you’d find it full of reindeer of all kinds… dainty glass [...]

Easy Tin Foil Christmas Decorations

December 4, 2012

We love using plain old aluminum foil for art. It’s not fancy, we almost always have plenty of it, yet it always looks so spectacular. And since Christmas is the [...]

Playdough Activity – Building with Playdough and Wooden Blocks

November 20, 2012

Just when I think we can’t possibly come up with a new way to play with playdough, we do! Well, my five year old play dough lover does! A cranky [...]

Our Ten Favourite Easy Painting Activities

November 13, 2012

My kids love to paint. Come to think of it I quite like to paint too, which is probably the real reason we do it so often. While I like [...]

Imaginative Play: Bugs in a Box

November 6, 2012

Do you want to set up a cool imaginative play scene that’s a little messy, maybe a little wet, but you don’t have anything to put it in? All you [...]

Cutting Practice – Making Snowflakes and Sunbursts.

October 23, 2012

My big boy has had an attack of the ‘can’ts’ lately. If he can’t do something perfectly, first time, then he ‘can’t do it’ at all and often storms off [...]

Weighing and Balancing – How to Make a Simple Balance

October 16, 2012

“I want to know if it weighs more, or the same” He demanded. “Ok, that’s easy, we’ll just weigh them” I suggested, then I remembered our kitchen scales were not [...]

Simple Sewing Cards Printable.

October 9, 2012

While my girls have been enjoying some more complex textile crafts like weaving and making God’s Eyes, my big boy is still a little frustrated and struggling to get the [...]

More than Just Uno – Other Games you can play with Uno Cards

October 2, 2012

I found the Uno cards while we were packing things up in preparation to tear out the kitchen the other day (don’t ask me why the Uno cards were in [...]

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